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Maureen Paley said, "The thing that came out of the YBA generation was boldness, a belief that you can get away with anything." [23] Speaking in 2009, Iwona Blazwick, the director of the Whitechapel Art Gallery, said, "The YBA moment is definitely now dead, but anyone who thinks they were a cut-off point is wrong. They began something which has ...
Collishaw's work uses photography and video. With an early foundation at Goldsmiths College, Collishaw formed part of the legendary movement of Young British Artists (YBA's). He was one of 16 young artists who participated in the seminal Freeze exhibition organized by Damien Hirst in 1988, that launched the YBA, as well as the provocative ...
Sensation installed at Brooklyn Museum (October 1999 – January 2000). Sensation was an exhibition of the collection of contemporary art owned by Charles Saatchi, including many works by Young British Artists (YBAs), which first took place 18 September – 28 December 1997 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. [1]
YBA or yba can refer to a number of things: Young British Artists, a movement of British artists in the 1980s and 1990s; Yala language, a language spoken in Ogoja, Nigeria, by ISO 639 code; Young Buddhist Association, an association of Buddhists in the U.S. Banff Airport, an airstrip near Banff, Alberta, Canada, by IATA code
The Saatchi Gallery is a London gallery for contemporary art and an independent charity [2] opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985. Exhibitions which drew upon the collection of Charles Saatchi, starting with US artists and minimalism, moving to the Damien Hirst-led Young British Artists, followed by shows purely of painting, led to Saatchi Gallery becoming a recognised authority in contemporary ...
The silhouettes are formed by lights shining on mounds of rubbish, which includes broken sunglasses and pin badges for rock bands. In this particular work the artist's heads are severed and impaled on stakes. [20] The work was destroyed in the 2004 Momart warehouse fire, along with a number of other well-known works from the Saatchi Collection ...
Once the "enfant terrible" of the Young British Artists in the 1980s, Tracey Emin is now a Royal Academician. [5] In 1997, her work Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995, a tent appliquéd with the names of everyone the artist had ever slept with, was shown at Charles Saatchi's Sensation exhibition held at the Royal Academy in London. [6]
The oldest surviving British art includes Stonehenge from around 2600 BC, and tin and gold works of art produced by the Beaker people from around 2150 BC. The La Tène style of Celtic art reached the British Isles rather late, no earlier than about 400 BC, and developed a particular "Insular Celtic" style seen in objects such as the Battersea Shield, and a number of bronze mirror-backs ...